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Educational websites should be exempt from mobile data charges to help the poorest families, according to BCS. Key sites used by schools and parents, for example, Purple Mash and Classcharts, should not incur any mobile charges in lockdown, according to BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. James Woodward reports.

Dr Alexi Drew, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Policy Institute at King’s College, London advises BCS on policy and cyber security. In this opinion piece she writes that now is the time to have a grown up conversation about the sometimes destructive power of the internet.

While the last few years have been defined by nation states untangling long-standing international collaborations on cybersecurity, 2021 will see security vendors and professionals step up and collaborate to fill the void, writes Neil Thacker, CISO EMEA at Netskope.

Looking back on 2020, it is clear COVID-19 redefined the term ‘digital resilience’, writes Greg Day, VP & CSO, EMEA of California based Palo Alto Networks, global leaders in cloud and cyber security.